From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 6 23: 4:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44E8637C114 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 13112 invoked by uid 268); 7 Apr 2000 05:57:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20000407055745.13111.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror In-Reply-To: <20000405180833.A15912@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Apr 5, 2000 06:08:33 pm" To: obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 07:57:45 +0200 (SAST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: "Geoff Rehmet" From: "Geoff Rehmet" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien writes : > Access to ftp.internat.freebsd.org from the USA (and presumably > elsewhere) is an abomination. Isn't there *anyone* with an permanate FTP > server that could officially mirror the crypto bits from > ftp.internat.freebsd.org? > Part of the reason for the poor access is that we are suffering from late delivery of circuits on the part of AT&T (some of the circuits have been outstanding since 15 November). - The site is located on one of our customers' premises. Of course, latency across satellite circuits also does not help. A further problem is apparent congestion on the customer's access crcuit to us - they really seem to be nailing their Internet access. (I'm seeing 600ms ping times across the access circuit.) Thus, a small modicum of improvement may be achieved if we were to mirror the site on ftp.is.co.za. This should be possible when we upgrade our ftp server (sometime this month). I can check with the administrator of our ftp site, whether he will be able to do the mirror. Only problem is that the directory structures will need to differ, as we are already ftp4.za.freebsd.org. For anyone from across the pond trying to access the site, your best mileage will probably be between 1900 and 0600 GMT, when most of our clients are asleep. Ciao, Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message